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El-ahrairah: The Prince of Rabbits, a trickster figure, from the fauxlore of Richard Adams' 'Watership Down' (1972). He appears in many of the stories the rabbits tell. This not your typical Easter bunny.
(Pic: https://t.co/WkC05Sfb0j)

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2023-04-06

European settlers in N.America believed hummingbirds were a cross between insects & birds & that the 'flying jewels' died in autumn after sticking their beaks into tree trunks, but were resurrected in the Spring
🎨 Kevin Sloan

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2023-04-04

The plip plop call of the Satanic Nightjar was once attributed to the sound it made plucking out folks' eyes...

🎨Renata Grieco

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2023-04-04

"Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the night and carry you off." (Neil Gaiman)

🎨 Alex Dos Diaz

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2023-04-04

The Goethe Monument (1832) by Carl Gustav Carus (German artist, lived 1789-1869). Goethe's sarcophagus.

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2023-04-03

“I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave” (Mary Shelley)

🎨 John Bauer

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2023-03-28

Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

~Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

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2023-03-25

"This I do vow, and this shall ever be:
I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee." (Shakespeare)

🎨 Charles Robinson

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2023-03-25

‘The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.’
—William Butler Yeats

🎨 John Anster Fitzgerald

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2023-03-25

"So when at last the Angel of the drink Of Darkness finds you by the river-brink,
And, proffering his Cup, invites your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff it—do not shrink." (Omar Khayyam)

🎨 Edmund Dulac

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2023-03-23

'Deer in the Forest' - Eugen Kruger, 19th century.

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2023-03-22

Daffodils were the harbinger of Spring in the distant past. It was once believed that if you looked at a daffodil and it drooped, it was an omen of death.

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2023-03-21

Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨

Saturday is BookCat’s catnap day. You can find today’s hashtag fun with our scintillating pals at and https://t.co/zw4fuNAPzk

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2023-03-18

One of two drawings for a Savage's gondola, in the shape of a sea monster with gremlins on the front and back; undated, possibly late 19th century.

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2023-03-18

"For sometimes she comes with a hissing noise like a serpent" (Lady Jane Wilde)

Of young mothers, carried away by the fae as nurses for their offspring.

🎨 Sara Litland

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2023-03-16

There are many stories of vampirism in Ireland and one of the most frightening creatures is known as the Dearg Due, or ‘Red Thirst’. However, the legend of the Dearg Due is as tragic as it is scary.

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Art : Coby Rickettes on ArtStation

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2023-03-15

Darklings, we know that Spring is round the corner - we sense it in the waters and the air and the green shoots.

But what do people need to know about the darker side of the season? Share with us using
(🖼: 'Gothic Hare', C.J. Bradford)

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2023-03-14

"And when the owl stirred, a fine dust
fell from its wings. I was
silent then. And felt
the owl quaver."
(from "The Owl" from Arthur Sze)
🎨Teagan White

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2023-03-13

‘Did the magpies rouse your slumbers with their carol sweet and strange?’ 🖤
—Andrew Barton Paterson

🎨 April White


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2023-03-10